Casey Wright
ITaP Informatics
@caseyveronica4
#bweb11
 Web
Application Programmer ,
ITaP Informatics
 Member, Web Accessibility
Committee
 Accessibility
info
 Issues and tips
 Exciting demos
 A gift for you!
 Additional resources
 Q&A

“People with disabilities constitute the
nation's largest minority group,
and the only group any of us can
become
a member of at any
time. “
http://www.disabilityfunders.org/disability-stats-and-facts
 Accessibility
benefits
everyone
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/sec508/index.htm
 Purdue’s
Web Accessibility
Policy
http://www.purdue.edu/policies/pages/information_technology/v_2_1.shtml
http://www.purdue.edu/webaccessibility/

How can you tackle this enormous
project?
Problem: Massive undertaking.
 Solution: “Baby Steps”

Problem: No standard plan of attack.
 Solution: Create one.

◦ Easy to do? Not really.
Problem: Coordination of efforts/progress.
 Solution: Wiki-fi-it.

Problem: Manual scans are painful.
 Solution: Find an automated scanner.

◦ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/complete.html
Problem: Image alt text.
 Solution: Gift for you!

◦ Be excited!
Problem: Videos
 Solution: Automatic Sync Technologies

◦ www.automaticsync.com
◦ YouTube
Problem: Customer-provided PDFs
 Solution: Still working on that one….

Problem: Scanners can’t catch
everything.
 Solution: Manual checks. Sorry.


Scan on development or QA sites ONLY
◦ Unless you block scanners from hitting
“delete” links, they WILL delete data

Still need to do manual checks
NOT endorsing this product
 Requirements:

◦ Desktop edition – Windows
◦ OnDemand – any device

Free 30-day trial
◦ www.powermapper.com

Educational discount
http://www.powermapper.com/products/sortsite/index.htm
http://www.powermapper.com/buy/index.asp?Store=Education&Products=All
The <img alt="what?" /> Checker
 We’re giving this to you for FREE!
 Requirements:

◦ Windows
◦ .NET 4 framework
ALT
508

Where can you get your hands on
Alt508 Checker?
◦ www.purdue.edu/mixable
 Groups > Web Accessibility

2011 Web Accessibility Awards
◦ $1,000 award given to 2 winners per year
during 4-year policy implementation
◦ Must use monetary award to further efforts in
area of accessible web design
◦ Nominations due April 22 to Office of
Institutional Equity
 http://www.purdue.edu/ethics/oie/
documents/2011WebAccessibilityAwards.
pdf

Web Accessibility Policy
◦ http://www.purdue.edu/policies/pages/
information_technology/v_2_1.shtml

Web Accessibility Committee
◦ www.purdue.edu/webaccessibility

Mixable
◦ www.purdue.edu/mixable > Groups > Web
Accessibility

Listserv
◦ https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/
webaccessibility-l

Special thanks to:
◦ James O’Cull – Alt508 Checker
◦ Marcy Hintzman and the Office of Institutional
Equity
◦ Web Accessibility Committee
◦ ITaP Informatics team